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Éditrice et auteure renommée, Cerise Simon a tout pour elle : une famille aimante, un ami denfance qui veille sur elle, une maison dédition florissante et un nouveau roman qui, dès sa sortie, est un

Après avoir survécu à des dragons, à des complots de cours et à des révélations fracassantes sur la nature de mes liens avec Damien, j’ai bien mérité un peu de répit... mais non !Je m’appelle Cat, et

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. A collection of writings from the founder of the Epicurean philosophy. The Ancient Greek proponent of pleasure and self-sufficient joy offers his teachings on simple pleasures and a happy life.

The Longe siblings are really botching their parents American Dream. Sola Longe, eldest daughter, estranged from the family, is secretly back home in Chicago for the first time in a decade. Shes a newly single and recently disgraced influencer trying to quietly put her life back together again. The other three Longe siblings arent doing much better. Anjola is in love with her best friend, who just got engaged to someone else; Karen, a college junior and the baby of the family, is grappling with her sexuality and self-image; and Ola, the golden child with a baby of his own on the way, is questioning his marriage and how to raise a Black son in America. Solas unexpected return sets them on a crash course towards each other, and when the four siblings find themselves together again at their Nigerian immigrant parents Thanksgiving table, a decades worth of secrets and a lifetime of resentments explode to the fore.

Un roman ténébreux aux frontières du fantastique et de la folie, le destin dune jeune femme perdue, prisonnière des convenances et de la violence, lhistoire dune passion destructrice.Par lautrice de

Lorsqu’elle est convoquée au commissariat et interrogée par une psycho-criminologue, Ophélia comprend qu’un événement grave a bouleversé sa vie. Pourtant, ses souvenirs restent hors de portée, comme

Its the story of a murder. Its the story of a marriage. Its the story of a lifetime. Its the story of a murder.Its the story of a marriage.Its the story of a lifetime. Noah and Rita. Rita and Noah. Theyve survived a lot: marriage, money troubles, two children and a hurricane that should have killed them. But can their relationship survive Noahs obsession with a cold case murder? Noah, a true crime journalist, has just published his first book the subject for which landed in his lap when the as-yet-unidentified killer of a local woman left a clue addressed to him in his home mailbox. Everything should be coming up roses for him and his family but the local police hate him, hes having creepy hallucinations, someone just tried to run him over, his beloved wife Rita has been writing him cryptic messages in the steam on the bathroom mirror and another apocalyptic storm is heading to Brisbane As Noah hurtles headfirst onto his own swirling storm of secrets, can he cling for dear life to the only story that really matters his love story with Rita? From the #1 bestselling Australia author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE (made into a major Netflix series), this is dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected: a novel about the stories we want to tell the world and those we shouldnt.

If youre looking for this centurys Ulysses, look no further - ObserverWildly original - Times Literary SupplementDan Fogarty is visiting his seventy-year-old sister Una, who is living in a care home in Margate. Una has dementia, but she is still able to recall her youth, spent in a hippie commune in South London. A picture of their familys history begins to emerge; the Fogartys were evicted from their home of Currabawn in Ireland in the 1950s, and both Dan and Una have been haunted by this forced exile.A sprawling, dazzlingly inventive novel in verse, Poguemahone cements McCabes status as one of Irelands greatest writers.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

This is nothing less than the work of a genuine master, a must-read - Billy OCallaghanWonderful, shape-shifting stuff - Colum McCannChenevix Meredith, recently retired, is whiling away his time somewhere on the south coast of England, when his old colleague, Henry Plumm, is found dead. The discovery prompts Meredith to reminisce about their days in 1960s Dublin, where the pair ran a theatrical agency except this theatrical agency was actually an outpost of the British state, and the duo were investigating the citys terrorist networks as undercover agents. Now, following the murder of his friend, Meredith is forced to contend with the buried darkness of their past.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Composed around 200 BCE, this ancient Sanskrit collection of animal fables has been translated for thousands of years into Pahlavi, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew, Old Castilian and Latin before gaining popularity in the West as The Fables of Bidpai in the 16th century.

Years after she walked out on her family, Helen has returned home after a war fought in her name. Her husband celebrates, her childhood friend Cee does not. Over the course of this first fragile night of peace time, wounds reopen, loyalties fracture and the true cost of a womans choice to leave her life is made clear.Ava Picketts fierce new play Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy is premiered at Stratford East, London, in 2026.

Les mots ont du pouvoir. Tout comme les intentions.La plupart des visiteurs du parc de Destinia viennent pour samuser. Se faire lire lavenir dans les cartes, se promener dans les magnifiques jardins ou manger un bon repas au restaurant - tout en ayant secretement lespoir, bien entendu, dapercevoir lun des Arcana, les etres mysterieux qui peuplent lile de Wyrd. Certaines personnes nont cependant pas pour objectif de se divertir, mais dinfluencer le cours du destin en passant un marche avec les Arcana. Avec des intentions plus ou moins louables...Beth Fahey, jeune inspectrice de police, est envoyee a Destinia pour se renseigner sur une arme fantome . Commence alors pour elle un etrange voyage au cours duquel elle devra apprendre a naviguer entre les lois impitoyables et les mysteres envoutants des Arcana. Confrontee a des affaires en apparence insolubles et aux secrets de son passe, il lui faudra demeler de troublantes enigmes alors meme que la tension monte entre les Arcana et les humains qui vivent de lautre cote de la riviere.Lile de Wyrd est un endroit etrange ou les morts prennent le train jusqua leur destination finale, ou les predateurs deviennent proies, et ou la veritable nature des uns et des autres se revele au gre des vibrations qui agitent la toile du destin dans leur sillage.Qui vivra ? Qui mourra ? Et qui errera entre la vie et la mort ? Tout ce quecrit Anne Bishop a immediatement une place de choix dans ma bibliotheque. Patricia Briggs Le premier tome de cette nouvelle serie dAnne Bishop aborde le theme du destin, de la verite et des consequences. Il decrit de maniere captivante un monde ou les humains ne sont pas aux commandes mais ont malgre tout larrogance de le croire, et ou le sauvage, letrange et le merveilleux sont des forces qui exigent obeissance et responsabilite, monde vu a travers les yeux dune inspectrice de police determinee capable de voir les deux cotes dun fosse en apparence infranchissable. Fortement recommande aux amateurs de dark fantasy et durban fantasy, en particulier aux fans de la precedente serie dAnne Bishop, Le Monde de Meg Corbyn. Library Journal Un roman divertissant, parfois cruel, ou se melent magie, mystere et malice. Publishers Weekly Le premier volet de cette nouvelle serie dAnne Bishop est un recit gratifiant sur les consequences et la force de lengagement, pour le meilleur comme pour le pire, mettant notamment en scene une jeune femme qui, pour voler de ses propres ailes, sera amenee a accepter des changements radicaux. Booklist

Sans les bibliothèques, je serais probablement morte. Ce sont des sanctuaires. Si vous privez cette bibliothèque de sa capacité à offrir refuge, je ne sais pas ce qui se produira. Mais je peux vous a

The #1 internationally bestselling author of Godkiller begins a bold new fantasy trilogya dark, atmospheric tale of warring kingdoms, wild magic, female rage, and the choice between love and power in a world ruled by conquest.Death is come to take you home, death of blood and thorn and boneTilde has always heard the whispers of the kithwood, the voices of her ancestors speaking through the mysterious forest of her homeland. But now both the kithwood and her kingdom are in danger, for Tilde is the only surviving heir of a conquered land. To stop the bloodshed, she must marry the aging Swan King, Liran, and bear him a son.But the kings court is dangerous. Lirans older sons will do whatever it takes to remove Tilde. And her presence stirs conflict in the heart of Lirans daughter, the princess Elise, who has only ever known loyalty to her family.Yet none of them know that Tilde is a snake in their midst, with allies on her side and dark, forbidden power of her own. She wants her kingdom back, and she will sacrifice everything to claim it.For the queen to rise, the swans must fall.

From New York Times bestseller and master of speculative fiction Garth Nix comes his first foray into adult science fiction with a brilliant and poignant stand-alone story of sentient starships, galactic warfare, and the bonds a crew forms far, far from Earth.Caught me a mountainRode it to the starsIts business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvette Sassafras. Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides on these sentient, starfaring mountain ranges, colonizing planets and exporting an on and off again war between Earth and Mars.But the big questions are always there, behind every battle, every new colony, every new star system discovery.Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars?Why do they help us export our wars?Whats in it for the Massifs?Ship crews arent supposed to ask these questions, they arent supposed to think about these questions, and they definitely arent supposed to go deep and talk to Massif avatars. But now Parnell and his tight-knit crew must try to find the answers, to save not only themselves but the future of humanity.

Ava loves the wildlife refuge where she grew up, but the long-buried secrets she discovers there threaten to destroy her familyand the paradise they call home. But is it really paradise if youre trapped inside?When wildlife ranger Johnny Hayward discovers a terrified young girl hiding in the grasses, he joins the tight-knit staff in trying to solve the mystery of how the girl, Maeve, came to their land. But when the police arrive, she tells them that Johnny is her father. He goes along with the lie, a split-second decision that entangles them both in a lifelong cover-up. Decades later, Maeves daughter, Ava, grows up believing that same lie. Avas love for the Refuge, where she lives in the staff cabins with her mother and is training to be a tour ranger, prevents her from dwelling on the fact that her mother never leaves the groundsand wont explain why. But after starting to date a local boy, Ava begins to question her sheltered upbringing, shocked to discover that life outside their fences is not the nightmare her mother always taught her to fear. She is obsessed with answering one question: What is her mother so afraid of?Angry that her mother and Johnny wont give her answers, Ava follows a string of clues to investigate the disturbing events that led to Maeves arrival all those years ago, unearthing secrets that some will do anything to keep buried.

From the author of Teddy, a dazzling historical novel about an American librarian in 1920s Switzerland who must face the truth of decisions she made to survive during the First World War.In the wake of the Great War, American Helen Fox lives a solitary life in Switzerland as a librarian, cataloguing books left as bequests by diplomats and other expatriates. Bookish and buttoned up, Helen is shocked when she receives a package that hints at her far more colorful past: its a draft chapter of a novel written by a man she knew intimately during the wara soldier she nursed at a camp in the Alps for wounded Allied troops. Though he claims his book is fiction, Helen is afraid of what it might reveal about who she used to be, really, and whose side she might have been on. . . .Bursting with literary references and testament to the power of reading, this lush and atmospheric tale of love, grief, and betrayal interweaves Helens own recollections of her lifeincluding her affair with an exiled Austrian baronwith pages from her ex-lovers supposedly fictional book and other dispatches. The Library of Leaving is both a story of a wartime romance and a meditation on how books read or written telland sometimes distortthe truth of a life.

Major crimes intersect in this nail-biting installment of the Timber Creek K-9 mysteries by awardwinning author Margaret Mizushima.A routine welfare check becomes a nightmare when Deputy Mattie Walker finds a young mother dead and a hysterical toddler, possibly the only witness to a brutal crime. Before the investigative team can start piecing together what happened, Mattie discovers another criminal act in Timber Creek.During a traffic stop for speeding, Mattie observes a nervous driver and a teenage passenger frozen with fear. A quick sweep of the car with her K-9 partner, Robo, reveals a dangerous mix of drugs and suspected human trafficking, providing Mattie with grounds to arrest the driver. After she places the teenager in protective custody, the sheriffs department hands the case over to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.As the team gathers evidence and information, Matties husband, veterinarian Cole Walker, notices suspicious activity during ambulatory calls at dog kennels, indicating yet a third crime lurking in the shadows. What begins as isolated incidents quickly reveals a chilling truth: Organized crime has infiltrated their rural mountain community.Every clue leads to more questions, and each answer brings them closer to greater danger. Do Mattie and her law enforcement partners have what it takes to shut down this criminal ring before it claims more victims? And could its next victim be someone Mattie loves?

As rich in detail and emotion as Amy Tans The Joy Luck Club and Lisa Sees Lady Tans Circle of Women, but with an exciting structure that reinvents the genre, Bo Wangs gorgeous and immersive debut historical novel immortalizes the life of the first Chinese woman to be brought to the United States in the 1800s.Little Sparrow, Julia, Afong Moy, Madame Moy, The Chinese Lady, were her many names . . . but her true name has been lost to time.In 1834 Afong Moy was brought to New York by two merchants as a live exhibit. Rising to fame as the first Chinese female in the United States, she became an oddity among curios as Americans marveled at the opportunity to observe her astonishing little feet, broken and bound to resemble lotuses.As the story moves from 1820s Canton to P.T. Barnums American Museum, to Gold Rush San Francisco, three women introduce us to her many names. Her mother calls her Little Sparrow and sells her to a captain who sails her to New York. The captains wife names her Julia and graciously treats her as her own. And when she is shunted off to P.T Barnum, her fellow human exhibitions call her China. Eventually arriving in San Franciscos Chinatown, she will at long last claim her name and her own story.Combining archival research and brilliantly imaginative storytelling, Bo Wang masterfully fills in historys gaps to weave a powerful narrative of survival in the face of hardship, tragedy, and betrayal. Told through the eyes of those around her; mirroring her life as an object on display, until we finally see the world through her own eyes.

Its time for spirits to come out and play in the ninth Year-Round Christmas mystery by national bestselling author Vicki Delany.Its Halloween, and the townsfolk of Rudolph, New York, are donning masks and costumes for the Yuletide Inns grand fundraising gala to support the local hospital. Shop owner Merry Wilkinson has yet another treat to celebrate: Her best friend, Vicky Casey, has a new cookbook set to publish. Vickys publishers, a prominent critic of her book, and a former opera star, rumored to have been involved with Merrys mother, are all set to attend the gala. As the drinks flow, the guests dance, and the canapes are served, things begin spiraling out of control. The book critic makes a scene, and tensions begin to rise. Then Merry realizes that she is not the only one who never actually paid for a gala ticket. But when someone drops dead after eating a cake pop from the lavish dessert buffet, everything comes to a head, and all eyes turn to Vicky, who made the treats. As it turns out, Vickys book might be doomed before it hits the shelves. With her friends name and livelihood at stake and the fundraiser in serious danger, Merry must keep her wits about her. Surely shes only imagining the ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge watching her from the shadows.